challenge
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A challenge on the indieweb usually means one of two things:
- a blogging challenge: a topic to write about, or a list of questions to answer, in a single post, often passed along or "tagged" by others
- an ongoing challenge: an event-like invitation to post progress towards a goal over a set period, like exercise or posting photos at some frequency (e.g. daily), also supported by silos like Strava and micro.blog
Kinds of Challenges
Questionnaires
A list of questions you answer in a post on your own site, then invite others to answer too. Responses often link back to whoever started the questionnaire, or to whoever passed it on. See questionnaire for the full list with example responses, including:
- Blog Questions Challenge (2025)
- Proust Questionnaire
- Sandwich Questionnaire
- Food Questions Challenge
- Cooking Conundrums Challenge
Prompts and Carnivals
A single theme or prompt, often with a host who collects responses into a roundup.
Collaborative Challenges
Challenges where two or more people write in response to each other.
- Title trades: two people swap blog post titles, and each writes a post for the title they received. The idea came from Kami.
zacharykaiwrites keeps a directory of people willing to trade at Title Traders.
Ongoing and Time-Based Challenges
Challenges that involve multiple posts, usually at a regular frequency like daily, for a set period such as a week, a month, or 100 days.
Daily
- The Daily Create:
“Each day you get a new creative challenge in photo, drawing, audio, video, or writing form, that you can do in 20 minutes or less. Every day since January 8, 2012.”
Monthly
- Blaugust: post 31 times during August
- Inktober: draw something each day in October
- Weird Web October
- National Blog Posting Month
- Edublogger #blogging28 28 Day Challenge 2019-01-03
- #31daysiboc highlighting indigenous and teachers of color as writers and scholars
Longer
Monthly Challenges
Blogging challenges for specific months:
IndieWeb Examples
People hosting challenges on their own sites.
IndieWeb Gift Calendar
An annual group effort to gift (ship) one or more IndieWeb-related thing(s) each day of December that others can use to improve their IndieWeb experience. Started in 2017.
Maxwell Joslyn
2019-08-28: Maxwell Joslyn hosted a "Sith Lord Challenge" on his personal website at Sith Lord Challenge and collected responses via Webmention
zacharykaiwrites
- 2026-10-18 Cooking Conundrums Challenge, ten questions about cooking
Add yourself!
Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Silo Examples
micro.blog
micro.blog often hosts official challenges at https://challenges.micro.blog/
- 2022-10-31: Microblogvember 2022: Here's how it works
See also photo challenge: micro.blog for their photo / photoblogging challenge examples from 2017-2025 at least.
Strava
Strava hosts time-limited fitness challenges, e.g. https://www.strava.com/challenges/873
Articles
- 2024-09-04 What’s up with blogging challenges?
See Also
- questionnaire
- challenges to joining the IndieWeb
- streak
- quiz
- photo challenge
- blog carnival